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Title: Retrieving deleted files
Post by: rocky3 on Friday 31 August 12 07:15 BST (UK)

Hi,

does anyone know of a free programme to download to retrieve files I have accidentally deleted? I want to retrieve photo's that were in my recycle bin which I deleted.

Thanks for any help offered.

Title: Re: Retrieving deleted files
Post by: Pels. on Friday 31 August 12 07:57 BST (UK)

Hi rocky3,

Give this a go :

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

I once deleted something to try it out and it worked for me.

Kind regards,

Pels.

Title: Re: Retrieving deleted files
Post by: japeflakes on Friday 31 August 12 07:57 BST (UK)

NOT tried this but:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syb2ShklM-k

Title: Re: Retrieving deleted files
Post by: rocky3 on Friday 31 August 12 18:31 BST (UK)

Thanks very much Pels and japeflakes - I will give these a go, so fingers crossed!!

Title: Re: Retrieving deleted files
Post by: PaulStaffs on Friday 31 August 12 22:30 BST (UK)

If you can use the first utility you find so much the better; the more you use your computer after the deletion the more likely it is that the disk space used by the original file will be overwritten and therefore unrecoverable. My advice would be 'quarantine' the machine and use another one if possible to try out recovery software then run that software from a USB or CD if possible rather than installing it on the machine with the deleted files.

Good luck!

Paul

Title: Re: Retrieving deleted files
Post by: rocky3 on Saturday 01 September 12 07:14 BST (UK)

 :) Thanks for the advice. I have stopped using it until I could try and retrieve the files.